United Airlines Boeing 747-400 Heavy Takeoff At Chicago O'hare with ATC

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15 жыл бұрын

Heavy Takeoff out of Chicago O'hare. Boeing 747-400. Flight from Chicago O'hare to Tokyo Narita. I got lucky and got a free upgrade to Buisness class on the Upper deck. Seat 15K to be exact. Channel 9 is included.
Takeoff out of runway 32L, full length. You know your heavy when you need full length out of runway 32L at Chicago. Great flight with United. It was a bumpy departure and holding the camera was kinda hard because the space between the seat and the window is big so I had to stretch my hand out and it was hard to keep the camera still. Plane is N180UA

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@ELSTARBREAKER 14 жыл бұрын

oooh thats why i like to fly united i enjoy the heck out of listening to the crew and the ground talk that's as real as a flight gets!

@gladson747 11 жыл бұрын

One full minute of take-off roll! Heavy indeed!

@huntergunderman9272 9 жыл бұрын

Love the ATC audio along with the video, good work!

@pr1268 13 жыл бұрын

Fascinating - I measured 9700 ft (2956 m) roll in 62 seconds (courtesy of Google Earth and my computer's clock). What I just now learned is that 32L has since been shortened, and 9R/27L has been renamed 08/26 and lengthened to 13kft (3962m) to accommodate these super-heavy, super-long-haul flights. (And a new runway parallel to 08/26 is being built.) Sorry if this has been discussed earlier in the comments. Thank you, rodgerjohnson, for sharing this excellent video.

@quinnjim 12 жыл бұрын

United Airlines has the ATC communications available on channel 9 of the audio entertainment system. The pilots don't always turn it on since some people record it and put it on the internet. Some passengers get confused by the radio communications and throw fits about stuff they don't understand. There's not a whole lot of "upside" to putting it on from a pilots perspective.

@thumbun 14 жыл бұрын

Long takeoff roll -- very cool. Most flight using 32L depart from Tango 10, but i guess when you are going all the way to NRT you need the fuel. Great video.

@nigahiga6400 12 жыл бұрын

My few encounters with united have been nothing short of excellent. Having the ATC is especially awesome for aviation buffs.

@powersurge91 13 жыл бұрын

This shows you just how much a 747's wing flexes when gaining altitude. :P

@samuelwalworth1121 12 жыл бұрын

United Airlines (now United) always have the option to listen to the ATC on Channel 9. Thats why i LOVE UAL

@kptrojans 12 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this. Great footage.

@airRail76 13 жыл бұрын

Glad you had a good flight- It's crazy how many passengers love channel 9. Awesome take-off roll----

@thumbun 13 жыл бұрын

32L is shorter than it use to be. Now only 9,685 feet. Runway 10/28 is the longest at ORD -- just over 13,000 feet. It was shortened in spring/summer 2010.

@kenpalmer1965 13 жыл бұрын

This is a real nice video! don't worry, I couldn't tell the departure was bumpy. It looked to me like the camera was still. I liked the conversation between the captain and ATC too. That plane sure was heavy indeed since it took the entire length of the runway to get off the ground. Nice view from the window all the way. superb job once again!

@lol-ug2ry 5 жыл бұрын

Best PW4056 sound ever!

@lengendmk 13 жыл бұрын

I'm flying with them from Chicago to Australia. I can't wait!

@UnitedJetSetter 13 жыл бұрын

I always listen to it because I like to know what's going on in the cockpit. Last time I flew LAX-IAD they had us decend to a lower altitude because there was so much turbulence.

@StratMatt777 14 жыл бұрын

Love these videos with channel 9- and especially the heavy takeoff! Thanks! Those 747 wings sure are flexible out toward the end (makes for a smoother ride than an Airbus). For the record, the six people who gave this video a thumbs down are idiots!

@Den1214 13 жыл бұрын

Great video - wow what a long takeoff roll. Glad you were on 32L! Let's hope we don't loose channel 9 with the UA/CO merger.

@profligatepassages 3 жыл бұрын

This did not age well 😂 Long Live CH9!

@LaylaSweetman 13 жыл бұрын

Nice capture with ATC :)

@dlr11164 12 жыл бұрын

All heavy aircraft departing O'Hare when O'hare is operating using the westerly runways use the full length of 32L. It's to assure that the wake turbulence after liftoff isn't lingering further down the runway at a higher altitude where the smaller jets taking off from T10 at 32L may encounter the wake. It cuts down on the holding time before departure behind the heavy for the smaller jets. It takes an extra minute or so for the heavies to get up to T10 & hold for smaller aircraft is 2 min.

@lleppala 14 жыл бұрын

i love the spool of those pw4087

@pwkpilot 15 жыл бұрын

only have 3000ft remaining. Due to your heavy weight- you were climbing out pretty shallowish [you can see the wings are just barely above the horizon] only around 1500fpm till the plane got "cleaned up" and above 10k. Thanks for the great video. More please! I love Boeings. "If it ain't a Boeing,I'm not a- going!

@N8764E 15 жыл бұрын

Very nice Mr. Johnson!

@OmarTheGuy 13 жыл бұрын

this is just beautiful

@spacyfoil 10 жыл бұрын

I cannot get over the wing flexing. Seems so delicate.

@nigahiga6400 9 жыл бұрын

Just remember if the wing were rigid it would put enormous stresses on the fuselage and wing itself. Up to 20 feet of wing flex is within the design limits posted (actual limits are much greater). Flexing allows it to act as a spring, making turbulence less pronounced for the passengers and crew.

@livefreeinuk1 13 жыл бұрын

nice post, almost ran out of tar mac, u were not kidding when u said heavy

@monster29456 12 жыл бұрын

because united airlines is good like that. and I'm glad they have the ATC because i went on a flight and it was my first flight and i was nervous, so i just listened to the pilots talking the whole time to make sure we weren't gonna crash...-_-

@aPerson1901 12 жыл бұрын

from chicago to asia, longest flight ever, 12 agonizing hours! probably longer for you since you're going to japan

@dasansgunner 12 жыл бұрын

Full length is an air traffic term meaning that there is another airplane at another intersection of the same runway waiting for take off. To avoid confusion and the wrong airplane taking the take off clearance, they use the term full length with the aircraft at the end of the runway.

@chickenandwaffles09 14 жыл бұрын

Very cool video.

@luisfe737 13 жыл бұрын

channel 9 is something very cool you know what's going on is the only airline that i know that has this service

@999lifegoes 13 жыл бұрын

@DIGITALSCREAMS The 747 is a very safe airliner and just relax,trust me just go on with the flight...You don't have to worry about any kind of insurance...Flying is the second most safest mode of travel.

@alkpone1949 13 жыл бұрын

Good one, thanks!!

@rodgerjohnson 14 жыл бұрын

You tune to channel 9 on any united airlines flight and you can listen to the live atc conversations. Not included on United Express though.

@InuKun2008 12 жыл бұрын

@HDJamieProductions United allows passengers on all flights (except those on the 767 fleet) to listen to ATC communications with the aircraft you are on via your headphones. However it is at the discretion of the Captain who can disable the feature at any time.

@nenblom 12 жыл бұрын

Amen. Great video!

@tengoindiamike 14 жыл бұрын

Great video! At the very you can hear N91LC being called which is a diamond star 40 based at my local FBO in KPTK, Oakland County ,MI.

@_Tommmmmm_ 13 жыл бұрын

@HDJamieProductions United feeds it through one of the audio channels. It's on channel 9, but they don't always turn it on.

@daantjeehxx 13 жыл бұрын

That boeing is huge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@777pusher 12 жыл бұрын

@HDJamieProductions - Channel 9 on the in-flight audio programming, and you can keep the headphones ;)

@Chris9017 11 жыл бұрын

Love the sound of those Rolls Royce engines.

@lol-ug2ry 5 жыл бұрын

Chris9017 those are PWs

@stefantheicewarrior 13 жыл бұрын

@fuzz30 no, that the aircraft has a gross weight of over 300,000 pounds, but typically that tag is attached to any widebody (twin aisle) aircraft and to boeing 757s.

@justin14842 13 жыл бұрын

nice vid

@Skullteen 13 жыл бұрын

Lucky! I wanna go to Tokyo!

@dingdongditch1000 12 жыл бұрын

I miss Chicago.

@nenblom 12 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@mrmoerder 13 жыл бұрын

@xGeminiXII Yeah. I dont know for long-hual flights. but for domestic, there great. They have a modern fleet and flight attentands are usually nice.

@smacman68 13 жыл бұрын

I flew a United 747-400 from Ohare to Amsterdam last year. They overbooked coach, so I got a free upgrade to 1st class. The only way to travel!

@diapermanful 14 жыл бұрын

@Zdogs22 Usually, long haul flights are loaded with freight which adds a lot of weight.Even without passengers, the fuel and freight alone would have weighed down the plane and caused it to eat a lot of concrete on the way up.

@laforet98 14 жыл бұрын

@rodgerjohnson I recently flew the Washington DC to Tokyo route earlier this month. I was not able to sleep on the flight so I listened to the pilots talk for almost twelve hours straight. It seemed like they were constantly talking. There were other airliners I was able to hear asking us (UA 803) if a particular course was recommended. I noticed that during that flight..we changed altitude multiple times to avoid "weather". When we got clearance to go higher, the engines roared louder.

@cutekeke88 14 жыл бұрын

business class is expensive but totally worth it xD

@nubbie1944 13 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the old United 881 flight to Tokyo.

@jehal1978 12 жыл бұрын

its a service they have in the entertainmentsystem

@camerongoll 14 жыл бұрын

man that was a long ass take off

@xxiceyshotxx 13 жыл бұрын

when you hear "heavy" your like oh, we're just heavy and need space to takeoff, then when you hear atc say heavy and full runway your like o shit.

@reg8mm 14 жыл бұрын

55 seconds from go till liftoff....yes you were Heavy!

@BNSFFREAK747 14 жыл бұрын

@1967beatlesfan I second this statement!

@dave4shmups 14 жыл бұрын

All such devices have to be approved by the FCC, so AFIK, they wouldn't cause radio interference. The flight crew wants your attention during critical phases of flight, like take off, which is why they don't want you using them. What this guy did in no way jeopardized the flight he was on.

@rodgerjohnson 14 жыл бұрын

@laforet98 pilot to pilot interaction is very common. The climbing higher has more to do than weather. It can be because of weather but during long flights you do step climbs to gain fuel efficiency since your plane is more fuel efficient when your higher up. You might ask yourself why they dont start up high, well they are too heavy and during the flight the fuel burns off and the plane gets lighter. which makes it more economical to go higher.

@rodgerjohnson 14 жыл бұрын

@wjelliott598 yes but they have to be United flights not united express. Pilots also have the right to turn channel 9 on or off. Most of the time it is on but Ive been on couple of flights where there was no channel 9 which is a huge bummer.

@TheChosenRed 15 жыл бұрын

Great video! I also have a take-off vid from O'Hare runway 32L on a British Airways 747-400 on my channel. We didnt use the full length though, we started from the first inter-section!

@gregster295 12 жыл бұрын

Channel 9 ftw!!! and @HDJamieProductions they have something called channel 9 where you can listen to live atc

@rodgerjohnson 15 жыл бұрын

I had enough miles to get upgraded to buisness class. If your not familiar with frequent flyer clubs then you should check them out cause you will get upgrades for free.

@rodgerjohnson 14 жыл бұрын

@Skippy585 Around 170-180. I went in the cockpit and saw on the FMC. Cant remember the exact number but the VR was in the range of 170-180.

@DOLRED 10 жыл бұрын

In Frame 2:21, off the right wing, beyond the white tanks is where the AA DC-10 Flight went down in May 1979 after leaving 32R with one engine missing from its mount. The crash (I believe) remains the deadliest in US Aviation History. The Pilot that day, W. Lux, was a fill-in for the flight--it was not his scheduled flight.

@OSTARAEB4 6 жыл бұрын

DOLRED, I was just thinking the same and then went to comments. Yes, I remember that vividly as it was flight 191 and was heading for Los Angeles. I lived near O'Hare then and remember looking out our front Living room bay window and saw the black smoke and first thought it was a tank farm fire. It was Memorial Day weekend on a Friday afternoon about 3;30pm and still remember the ambulances and fire truck sirens from all surrounding communities. It's sad all perished and always thought of that went I would drive by that field.

@wakeupsheep 13 жыл бұрын

Long live Continental !

@505stealth 14 жыл бұрын

Man, that was a 51 second roll once spooled up...not counting the little movement in speed before full spooling. Talk about the fuel tanks and cargo bay being full.

@HDTrainVids 15 жыл бұрын

Cool video...How did you get the channel 9 audio into your video? Hold the headphones up to your camera?

@505stealth 13 жыл бұрын

Maybe luck for you...but they may have needed more weight up front for balance....remember...when airlines have a choice..balancing more profitable freight is the real angle. passengers are just icing on the cake..if a 747 is loaded down below.

@ajones35 11 жыл бұрын

How long is that flight?

@rodgerjohnson 14 жыл бұрын

receivers has no harm on navigational systems of the Boeing 747. Plus I wasnt usin my receiver. I was using channel 9.

@wanderfalken 15 жыл бұрын

wow amazong

@pwkpilot 15 жыл бұрын

You needed runway 32L full length which is 13000ft long- because you were most likely at or above 800,000lbs for the long flight to NRT . MTOGW for the 744 is 875k and would need around 11,000ft[depending on ISA and some other factors of course] of pavement to get airborne. Your speed was more than likely185kts when the mains lifted off[V2] On your flight- the takeoff roll took almost one minute and you rotated right after you passed by the crossing runway which is 9R/27L and now you would

@Skullteen 13 жыл бұрын

@DA20c1flyboy I dunno, I think it depnds on the individual plane. I fly Southwest the most so I usually don't get a chance to select a channel on an airplane.

@michaelkoswara 14 жыл бұрын

wait a minute, u guys can hear what the pilots are talking about from the passenger cabin ? whoa!

@rodgerjohnson 14 жыл бұрын

@nathanater08 yep with channel 9 comin through the earpiece.

@pilotsimu 12 жыл бұрын

wow very heavy to take-off , one minute for V1 V2 ..

@aviationfascination 14 жыл бұрын

how did you record the conversation with ATC? Did you press the earpiece hard against the mic of your camera or something?

@laforet98 13 жыл бұрын

@Samurai1568 You just tune in from your seat on Channel 9.

@vk3crg 13 жыл бұрын

@xGeminiXII I've travelled from Australia to the USA many times on United. United get you to where you're going in one piece & their staff are friendly. However, their 747 fleet are showing their age inside. They BADLY need to update their in-flight entertainment & tacky 80's decor. United have a few projectors to watch on board. No personal LCD screens with 'chose you own channel' or on-screen in-flight gaming (between other passengers etc) like Qantas, who's fleet is far more modern inside.

@Zdogs22 14 жыл бұрын

damn, this thing really eats up runway when its full fuel and pax.

@Chris9017 11 жыл бұрын

Oh okay. I take it GM or RR would make more of a deep roaring sound, since I don't hear it in here.

@nasirbkhan 12 жыл бұрын

niceeeeeee

@derekwall200 9 жыл бұрын

climbing heavy im sure would take awhile unless you have a sufficient head wind and have your flaps set so your wing is wide enough to get good lift

@brianhill2701 9 жыл бұрын

Oh it will

@nefarious5 13 жыл бұрын

@0404SP Yes, its called wing flex. Perfectly normal. :)

@surferman735 13 жыл бұрын

whoa i here the tower conversations! how does tht work

@654321825 12 жыл бұрын

And I thought going to Europe gets me impatient :D

@rodgerjohnson 15 жыл бұрын

yep but those new noise canceling headfones are loud.. I mean loud I could hear the conversation when I didnt have my headfones on when it was like 70% volume. I didnt put it at 100 cause the person next to me. BUt yeh you can see the headphones on the bottom right corner on some parts of the video.

@huhuboyd123 13 жыл бұрын

is it up to the pilot to let you listen to ATC convo, or is it just on select flights? because last time i was on a 747 United flight it was out of Hong Kong to San Francisco, although the screen said i can listen to ATC convo on channel 9 there was no convo

@SteU4IA 12 жыл бұрын

@HDJamieProductions scanner plugged into camera i assume.

@nigahiga6400 11 жыл бұрын

stop complaining. my family is in Australia and flight there take 14-16 hours.

@onebadlt123 13 жыл бұрын

@Airplanefinder This is false. "Heavy" simply indicated wake turbulence category. A 757 can be classified as a heavy and it only has a single isle. It has nothing to with seat configuration. These "heavies" are susceptible to produce a large amount of wake turbulence. Everything from a C5 Galaxy to a B2 bomber and 757 can be a "heavy".

@nenblom 12 жыл бұрын

I haven't flown on the B747 is many many years. Would love to fly on it again!! I do have a question. I am flying overseas in September and I would love to make one of these videos myself. Do you have to have special permission for it?

@Skippy585 14 жыл бұрын

So what do you think the takeoff speed was? 150 kts? I've seen some pretty impressive short take off from a plane that size here on KZfaq. Of of them being at ST Martin.

@rodgerjohnson 15 жыл бұрын

Hey, I agree with you. I love Boeings all the way. I can tell you our gross weight was somewhere around 830k - 840k. How do I know that? I got to go into the cockpit and I took a look at the FMC INIT REF page and there it was. I forgot excactly what the weight was but I can tell you that we had 328,800 lbs of fuel for the flight. Im gonna do this whenever I have the chance flying with UNitEd! Thanks.

@airlinepilotdude 14 жыл бұрын

I'll take United any day just because they have channel 9 ATC

@BirdManUnlimitedLove 10 жыл бұрын

First of all I did not get why it was a heavy takeoff

@Milesco 10 жыл бұрын

It's not the takeoff that's heavy, it's the airplane. Air Traffic Control refers to aircraft as "heavy" (as in "Flight 107 Heavy") if they are capable of takeoff weights of 300,000 pounds or more.

@airborne8102 6 жыл бұрын

The plane probably had close to or a little above the max amount of takeoff weight. This means it was a very full flight. (People, Cargo, Bags, and Fuel)

@rodgerjohnson 15 жыл бұрын

yep